Four-and-a-half years after the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, a provincial report has been released that sheds more light on what happened.

"During the riot, there were 112 businesses damaged, 122 vehicles were damaged or destroyed, and 52 assaults were reported against civilians, police, and emergency personnel," the B.C. Prosecution Service states in the document.

The riot following the Canucks loss to the Bruins lasted for more than five hours over a three-square-kilometre area in the downtown core.

"Any single rioter could, and many did, commit multiple criminal acts at multiple locations," the report notes. "Evidence of those criminal actions was effectively hidden, like a needle in a haystack, in multiple exhibits taken by various videographers. It would have taken an investigator almost three years simply to view all of the video once."

In total, 51 forensic-video analysts and investigators worked for more than 4,000 hours to process the video. They were assisted by the International Law Enforcement Emergency Services Video Association.

The cost of prosecutions of riot-related files over five years added up to nearly $5 million.

"In the end, 284 accused pleaded guilty, 10 accused chose to go to trial (9 were convicted), and the Crown entered a stay of proceedings, terminating the prosecution, against six accused because the Branch's charge assessment standard was no longer met," the report states. "Over 500 court days were required to complete the trials and sentencing hearings."

Among the adults charged, 47 percent were sentenced to jail, another 47 percent received conditional sentences, three percent received suspended sentences and the remaining three percent received discharges.

Among youths charged, 63 percent received probation, 18 percent were given intensive support and supervision orders, 17 percent received deferred custody and supervision orders, and two percent were incarcerated.

Here are some other statistics in the report about what occurred on June 15, 2011:

• 928 police officers, including 606 Vancouver Police Department members, were deployed that night.

• 63 Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services staff and 44 members of the B.C. Ambulance Service were also deployed that night.

• There were 250 emergency-room visits to St. Paul's Hospital that night, compared to just 15 emergency-room visits to Vancouver General Hospital.

Financial losses amounted to $3.78 million, including $2.7 million to local businesses. The remainder was to civilians, the City of Vancouver, the B.C. Ambulance Service, and St. Paul's Hospital.

The Integrated Riot Investigation Team identified "297 discrete riot events", including 26 arsons, 193 mischiefs (damage to property), 26 break and enters, and 52 assaults on civilians, police officers, and a firefighter.

That night, 316 people broke into the London Drugs store at the corner of Granville and West Georgia Street, stealing goods from the shelves. Employees who had locked the doors "hid in a small windowless office in the basement of the store", the report states.

This event resulted in $760,000 in lost merchandise and $140,000 in necessary repairs to the store.

Across the street, the Hudson's Bay suffered $432,000 in stolen property, $856,000 in damage to merchandise and the store, and $58,000 in "other riot related costs (such as trauma counselling for employees)".

Citizens responded in the following days by forwarding a massive amount of material to the police, including:

• 53 emails with attached video;

• 708 emails with attached images;

• 676 emails with links to social media sites;

• and 1,355 emails with hyperlinks to social media sites.

The report notes that the City of Vancouver set up public-viewing areas in the downtown core during the Stanley Cup final, drawing approximately 55,000 people to West Georgia Street. There were approximately 100,000 people milling about in the streets after the game ended.

The riot began outside Canada Post's main building near one of the Jumbotrons, but the report did not point fingers at the city for any role it might have played in the riot taking place.